Carriage hood construction



April 20, 1948.

R. E. STROTT CARRIAGE HOOD CONSTRUCTION Filed Sept. 28, 1945 IN V ENTOR. Rom-fir A. J'r/rorr Patented Apr. 20, 1948 CARRIAGE HOODCONSTRUCTION Robert E. Strott, East Templeton, Mass, assignor to ThayerCompany, Gardner, Mass, a corporation of Massachusetts ApplicationSeptember 28, 1945, Serial No. 619,075

2 Claims.

This invention relates to new and improved constructions in carriagehoods, particularly for infants carriages.

Objects of the invention include the provision of a "seamless" hood; i.e., exteriorly seamless as to the front hood bow, and obviating thenecessity for the conventional seam in the hood extending across thesame to form a pocket for said bow, this conventional seam beingdifiicult to guide and therefore often crooked and ill-appearing; theprovision of said seamless hood for both lined and underlined, or paddedor unpadded hoods; the provision of a single line of stitching appearingonly at the junction of the hood and its visor, said single line ofstitching connecting the exterior material of the hood to the visor andfinishing a pocket for the bow at the same time, the pocket comprising afold in the exterior hood material in the case of the unlined hood, anda fold in the lining material in the case of the lined hood, said lineof stitching thereby providing a securement pocket for the bow andappearing at the exterior of the hood as the conventional stitching forthe visor, leaving the hood free of stitching and seams.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 isa general view of a hood for a carriage;

Fig. 2 is a section thru the hood, visor, and front bow of an unlinedhood;

Fig. 3 is a section thru the hood, Visor, and front bow of a lined hood;and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary View of the top of the visor from the front.

Fig. 1 shows a carriage I having folding hood I2 extended and folded bya conventional break connection I4. The hood in the drawing isillustrated as having a front bow I6 and four other bows at l8, and forthe purposes of this application, the front bow may be taken as U-shapedwith the free ends of the arms of the U pivoted at 20. The hood also hasa visor 22.

As shown in Fig. 2, the hood I2 extends to the left and slightlyupwardly at 24 forming a bead, thence downwardly, under and around thefront bow l6, terminating in a free end 26 tucked into the bead 24, asshown.

The visor has an end 28 tucked down in front of the bow, and a line ofstitching 30 passes thru the visor end 28, interiorly thereof, thru thebead 24 and the end 26 binding all together completin a holding pocketfor the bow l6. Another line of stitching 32 thru the bead and end 26may also be used to stiffen the bead if desired.

The drawings exaggerate the bead 24 for clarity of illustration, and itis pointed out that this bead actually appears as a narrow length ofpiping. In any case, no other stitching is required to form the pocketfor the how, but the hood is smooth and stretched taut by reason of thebow pressing upwardly and forwardly on the hood due to the connection[4.

Fig. 3 illustrates the invention as applied to a lined hood, and in thiscase the hood I2 is folded under at 34, resting on the end of the visormaterial at 36. The lining is represented at 38 and it extends forwardlyunder the bow i6, is folded over on itself at 40, and then passes up andover the bow as at 42, terminating in an end 44 sewed to th li i n y tiorly of the hood, to finish the bow pocket. A single line of stitching46 serves to connect the hood, the lining and the visor. In this case,also, the drawing is somewhat exaggerated and actually the stitchingsqueezes the hood material to again make it appear like thin piping.

Both forms of the invention provide a seamless hood of good appearanceand without unnecessary stitching heretofore thought to be required tohold the bow.

Divisional application Serial Number 692,187, filed August 22, 1946,covers the subject matter disclosed in Fig. 2.

Having thus described my invention and the advantages thereof, I do notwish to be limited to the details herein disclosed, otherwise than asset forth in the claims, but what I claim is:

1. A carriage hood, a bow therefor, a lining, the latter being generallyco-extensive with the hood and folded over on itself to contain the bow,stitching securing the hood to the lining at the fold of the latter,said stitching being located wholly to one side of the bow, and meansconnecting the lining to itself adjacent the edge of the bow oppositethe fold, said means being located Wholly at the other side of the bow,the latter being wholly contained in a pocket formed by the lining andthe hood being free of the bow.

2. A carriage hood, a bow therefor, a lining folded over the bow at thefront edge of the hood, the folded over portion of the lining lyingconcealed between the hood and lining and being secured to the lining,stitching securing the lining and hood at said front edge of the hood,and a visor having an edge lying between the hood and folded overlining, the stitching passing through the visor to secure the same.

ROBERT E. STROTT.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 417,218 Bauer Dec. 17, 1889656,159 Austin Aug. 21, 1900 882,232 Burg Mar. 17, 1908 1,307,073 AlveyJune 17, 1919 1,721,856 Carleton July 23, 1929 1,741,946 Markee Dec. 31,1929

